December Reading Poll

[Scheherazade]

Let's get voting for December!


Little Men (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451522753/qid=1130843151/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451529308/qid=1130843277/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Louisa May Alcott

The Great Gatsby (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743273567/qid=1130843345/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by F. Scott Fitzegerald

Someplace to be Flying (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312858493/qid=1130843387/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Charles de Lint

In Cold Blood (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679745580/qid=1130843443/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Truman Capote

Angels and Demons (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671027360/qid=1130843489/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Dan Brown

Belinda (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192837095/qid=1130843520/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Maria Edgeworth

A Christmas Carol (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553212443/qid=1130843556/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Charles Dickens

Joan of Arc (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0898702682/qid=1130843596/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Mark Twain

Joe's Boys (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553214497/qid=1130843657/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9326777-5007829?v=glance&s=books) by Louisa May Alcott




Book Club Procedures (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=57103#post57103)

[papayahed]

It seems rife with Alcott!!!!

I'm thinking "In cold Bloood" would be a nice year - ender, right?????

[jtoland]

I love Little Women so much! This would be a good choice. :nod:

[ThatIndividual]

If I may inquire, how are the choices that make the ballot determined? Were these books nominated in a poll of some sort or... how does that work exactly?

[ThatIndividual]

Never mind that... I have just discovered the December Nominations thread.

[Taliesin]

[Shmeless advert]Urban fantasy is sometimes called fantasy for people who usually do not read fantasy.
It doesn't take place in mythical pseudomedieval place - it's plot is in a modern city.
You could also call it magical realism.
Charles de Lint is one of the best urban fantasy writers - some consider him the father of the genre.

There are a number of protagonists in "Someplace to be Flying" - Lily, a photojournalist, who is searching for information for the animal people in Newford slums.
Hank, an unlicenced taxi driver from these slums.
Katy, a young woman who has been kept in lunatic asylum by her parents for half her life because of her invisible friend - her twin sister who appeared in her early teens and who has just started a new life - in Newford, in this funny house with strange inhabitants called Aviary.
Jack Daw, a storyteller and a corbae - one of the First People, who was there when the world was created (so that Raven would have someplace to be flying)

So, vote for "Someplace to be Flying"[/Shameless advert]

[Erna]

The great Gatsby, I would like to read that!

[Jay]

I'm torn, lol. I wanted to read Little Women a few months ago, I'm still trying to get to finish Angels & Demons, and Tal's shamless advert's captivating... can I vote 3 times? :D

[Stanislaw]

The great gatsby, I had to read L.W. for my english class, 'twas pretty uninteresting.

[Koa]

I didnt enjoy Gatsby either, I am voting for Truman Capote cos the only thing I've ever read of him (which I cant recall but it was short ;)) was involving. :nod:

[Nightshade]

which version of little women would be reading??
the one that includes Good wives (the more normal edition nowadays I belive or the original one ending the chapter before meg gets married ???)
I love alcott wellk with the excveption of work; a story of experiance and Behind a mask; a woman's power.

As I ve always been a sucker for good prpaganda I think Im gona go with Tal's shamless advert :D :nod:

[Jay]

Someplace To Be Flying. *waves a flag* Someplace To Be Flying!!! :p

NOT Gatsby! Come on people, Gastby? You can do better than that!

*hopes she's still able to get her hands on a copy of STBF :D*

[Scheherazade]

I have voted for Little Women because it's Christmasy (although we will have a Christmas reading)... and I have to re-read it again for my BBC reading! :D

[Pensive]

Scher, What about Christmas Carol? Isn't it more Christmasy?

[Scheherazade]

A Christmas Carol is not in the list and also, last year the Book Club read it :)

Soon we will have a nomination-voting thread for our Christmas Reading.

[Jay]

Can we not read Gatsby? But, for example, Someplace To Be Flying? :D
Just checked... Little Women is not too student-friendly in time of exams & essays :p

[EAP]

'Someplace To be Flying...'


Edit:


some consider him the father of the genre.

Unless Mr. De Lint was born in the 1800's, that cannot be the case.

[Jay]

Now all we need is two more votes for Someplace To Be Flying... and no one else to vote for Gatsby :p... game anyone? :D

[Taliesin]

'Someplace To be Flying...'


Edit:



Unless Mr. De Lint was born in the 1800's, that cannot be the case.


We are afraid that we are heavily misinformed.
Which urban fantasy writer was born in the 1800 s?

[papayahed]

Now all we need is two more votes for Someplace To Be Flying... and no one else to vote for Gatsby :p... game anyone? :D


HA! My plan is working!!!! I can feel the power!!

[Shea]

I'm going to join this month, unless I can get the November book read soon.

I also fell for the shameless advert.

[Jay]

YES! A few more votes wouldn't hurt still... anyone else feels like reading anything else than a classic? I'm sure Papaya's waiting for the last hours to cast her vote... just don't be too late ;)... Anyone else? One vote lead is nice, but still not too secure... so... we're still waiting for more! Geeks and/or KitKats in our Live Chat pub for free! (well, just like everything else but that's beside the point ;))

[Scheherazade]

HA! My plan is working!!!! I can feel the power!!That is of course if you don't forget to vote, right?

:p

[papayahed]

Sheesh, it's not that I forget.......ok sometimes I forget but most of the time I wait too long. Actually my plan has never really worked, My books never win (and yes that is a bit of a whine), perhaps I should vote as sooner.

[Jay]

Sounds like a plan ;)

[Shea]

phtt! Silly me! I jumped the gun and went ahead to order Someplace to be Flying from my library, but I just realized that the poll hasn't even closed yet! :P

[Kiwi Shelf]

If something I own wins, I will join in, but I have too many books to buy new stuff.

400th post!

[Shea]

what happens if there is a tie?

Kiwi, my husband starts twitching whenever I talk of buying another book. As much as I would love to expand my own library, I've decided to borrow from the public one until our money is a bit freer. Just a suggestion. :)

[emily655321]

*hugs for Shea and Kiwi* !!

There is a used bookstore in my backyard! *drooools* Well, my apartment looks out onto a parking lot, and there is a used bookstore in it, right next door. ...And another one across the street. (And a bookstore that sells nothing but politically-themed books just next to that! Don't think I'll be sharing any of those on here, though. :p ) Ah, paradise, thy name is Vermont.

That said... C'monnnn, Gatsby! I voted for "Cold Blood" to be neutral, and because it's what I want most. But if the "urban fantasy" book wins, methinks I'll be reading Capote anyhow.

[papayahed]

All Rigghhttt! Capote might have a chance!!

[Shea]

Emily!! :wave: Good to see you!!! :D :D

[alicialiv]

I would love if we would read Angels and Demons. It would get me motivated to finish it. I was rabid about it when I first started reading, but time interrupted my continuation of the novel. It is a really wonderful, suspenseful novel, I highly reccommend it.

[Taliesin]

Highly suspenseful but you couldn't finish it and need something like Book Club to motivate you to finish it? We see...


Others than that: Emily! Welcome back!

[Kiwi Shelf]

*hugs for Shea and Kiwi* !!

You are back around! And still beating me in posts. lol Glad to see you.

Anyways, what I should say is that I have sooo many books to read, I don't want to get anything new until my pile gets down. That will take most of my life, lol. I say I won't buy anything, and then I do.

[emily655321]

Hi Taliesin! :wave: Good to see you!

Kiwi -- Lucky you! I've always just read my father's books (he has just about every classic there is), but now I have to start building a library of my own. I don't have very many except ones for school, and a good chunk of those are from my class on war journalism. :sick:

[Kiwi Shelf]

Oh, don't worry, I have plenty of the school thing covered as well, but I don't have a parents library to rely on, my mother is not a big reader, so I read my own stuff. I would safely say I have a library... I just need a better place to keep them. *dreams of own house complete with library* *sigh*

[Jay]

Hey Emily, welcome back :)

Still looking for a vote or two for STBF! Volunteers anyone?

[papayahed]

HA!! I managed to vote this time, the first time in a month or 2 I'd say...

[emily655321]

Hi, Jay! :wave: Thank you.

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[Jay]

We need another vote! Most preferably for STBF (not Gatsby) so Scher doesn't have to toss a coin :p

[Kiwi Shelf]

there you go.....
Did Gatsby in school, so if I join in, don't want to read the same book again. :)

[Jay]

Yes! :D Thanks :p

We're still accepting more votes though... better safe than sorry ;) :p

[Kiwi Shelf]

Well, maybe you will get lucky and no one else will vote. It is only a couple more days.

[Pensive]

Thanks for your vote Kiwi. :banana:

[caspian]

now i feel power... what should I do? Actually my choice is "little women" but as my vote is not gonna help it to win i think I better choose between The Great Gatsby and Someplace to be Flying.
Fantazy is not for me, should I vote for Gatsby? I know I can be killed here i better don't :D

[Scheherazade]

It is never too late to change the course of history, Caspian!

Follow your heart,
Follow your mind;
Otherwise, how will you sleep at night???

Vote for Little Women!!!

*resumes calm*

Ehem...

Going twice...

[Nightshade]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! :eek: :bawling:
Someplace to be flying someplace to be flying someplace to be flying.....
On second thoughts I need to see if I can get a copy I knew I should have ordered one off amazon.

[papayahed]

now i feel power...

That's what I'm talkin' about.... :banana:

[Jay]

Better Little Women than Gatsby :p

[caspian]

Ok! Daha sizsiz de... :p I follow my heart, my mind, and your advice and prefer having a nice sleep at night. ;) Forever classic! :nod:

[emily655321]

*Weeps quietly*